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Saturday, 9 January 2016

Sarah Evans wins our prose competition!

Congratulations
to Sarah who has won Words And Women’s prose writing competition with her
wonderful short story Scalpelling Through.

Sarah has had over a hundred stories published in
anthologies, magazines and online, with outlets including: the Bridport Prize,
Unthank Books, Lighthouse, Structo and Best New Writing. She has won a number
of short story prizes, including the Winston Fletcher Prize, the Stratford
Literary Festival Prize, the Glass Woman Prize, the Fylde Writers’ Circle Prize
and the Rubery Prize. She has also had work performed in London, Hong Kong and
New York.

Sarah wins £600 and her winning story will appear in our third
anthology Words And Women: Three
published by Unthank Books , which
will be launched at our International Women’s Day celebration on the 7th
March this year at Norwich Arts Centre. Tickets are now available for this
event by clicking here.

Our
competition was open to women living in the East of England over the age of 16.
We asked for prose – fiction or non-fiction – under 2,200 words, and the
scripts, like last year, covered a variety of subjects: belly-dancing, the ‘Jungle’
in Calais, the birth of a calf, virginity, drugs, house demolition, the First
World War, murder and the movies. They were set not just in this region but all
over the world. This year we again received more fiction than non-fiction and
we attracted entries from all over the East of England, from Norfolk to
Hertfordshire, from Suffolk to Essex.

Our
guest judge for this year was Emma Healey, author of the best-selling novel Elisabeth Is Missing. All entries were judged anonymously and the unveiling
of the names of the winning writers at the end of the process was very
exciting!

Sarah
is our worthy overall winner. There are also 21 other writers whose scripts
will be published in our anthology.

Over
the next few days Words And Women will be posting photos and short biographies
of all of our successful writers. Also Words And Women will be busily editing
and shaping the anthology for publication. More news about this will be posted
on our blog in due course.

Finally,
Words And Women would like to say thank you to everybody who entered the
competition. The quality of work, as always, was outstanding.

The
winning entries:

FIRST
PRIZE OF £600 and PUBLICATION IN WORDS
AND WOMEN: THREE=

Sarah
Evans for her short story Scalpelling Through. Sarah lives in Welwyn Garden City,Hertfordshire.